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Mintaro Slate and Flagstone - more than 150 years of production.
Mintaro Slate is produced from what is believed to be the oldest continuously operating quarry in Australia. The quarry was opened in the early 1850s, after Mintaro farmer Peter Brady discovered outcrops of slate in a creek bed on his property and...-
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RB 60/00037 Geology of the Clare 1-mile military sheet.
The Clare 1-mile mapsheet area is situated about 70 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia, in partly hilly agricultural and pastoral country. The oldest Adelaide System (Proterozoic) rocks are the phyllites, quartzites and dolomites of the River...-
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Published: 25 Feb 1965
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Leighton. Annual and final reports to licence surrender for the period 19/11/2007 to 21/8/2009.
Basal Umberatana Group glacial tillitic sedimentary sequences and upper Burra Group interglacial arenaceous sediments were explored for possible economic stratabound gold mineralisation in an area located about 10-40 km north-west of Burra. In the...-
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SADME/Amdel mineral research project : [petrological/mineralogical and geochemical] investigation of Mintaro slate. Progress reports nos 1 and 2 for the period August 1978 to January 1979.
24 samples of quarried 'slate' (fine-grained dolomitic siltstone) from Mintaro were examined to determine microscopic reasons for the observed variability in their physical properties.-
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Published: 25 Jan 1979
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RB 62/00028 Report on geochemical investigation, Burra project.
The pedological environment of the Burra area is described, the methods of soil sampling and sample penetration are given in detail and an outline of the spectrographic analytical procedure is given. Attempts at applying statistical methods to the...-
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Published: 02 Feb 1966
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Mount Bryan. Annual report and final report to licence full surrender, for the period 21/1/2008 to 7/5/2012.
Exploration for gold and copper mineralisation within an area located immediately south of Mount Bryan and 19 km north of Burra was aimed principally at finding deposits of copper oxide and carbonate ores similar to those mined historically at Burra...-
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